Leveraging heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data to promote tourism

Abstract

This paper presents part of the European FEDER Project TCVPYR, which aims to promote tourism in the French Pyrenees region by leveraging elements of its cultural heritage. The TCVPYR is a multidisciplinary project involving scientists from various domains, including: computers scientists, geographers, historians and anthropologists. In order to achieve its goal, some of the TCVPYR researchers are currently collecting georeferenced cultural heritage data in different areas of the Pyrenees. This data, together with data from the local governments and the Open Data, is intended to feed a mobile application that promotes the tourism in the region. The mobile application will allow tourists, but also scientists, to access cultural heritage data in the form of points of interest (POI). Moreover, these POI are to be presented according to the user profile and the environmental context, including spatiotemporal aspects such as his current location. For example, the application may suggest to a tourist an itinerary with several POI taking into account his interests, means of locomotion, available time and mobile features (battery level, internet connexion…). All data collected in this project as well as the final application will be published as open data and open source.